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Indigenous People and the Christian Faith: A New Way Forward
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Indigenous People and the Christian Faith: A New Way Forward

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-04-15
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  • Publisher: Vernon Press

Indigenous People and the Christian Faith: A New Way Forward provides detailed historical, cultural and theological background and analysis to a very delicate and pressing subject facing many people around the world. The book is “glocal”: both local and global, as represented by international scholars. Every continent is represented by both Indigenous and non-indigenous people who desire to make a difference with the delicate problematics and relationships. The history of Indigenous people around the world is inextricably linked with Christianity and Colonialism. The book is completely interdisciplinary by employing historians, literary critics, biblical scholars and theologians, sociologists, philosophers and ordained engineers. The Literary Intent of the book, without presuming nor claiming too much for itself, is to provide practical thinking that will help all people move past the pain and dysfunction of the past, toward mutual understanding, communication, and practical actions in the present and future.

Narratives of Mass Atrocity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 375

Narratives of Mass Atrocity

  • Categories: Law

Offers a narrative approach to post-conflict intervention, showing how legalism following mass violence encourages dangerous binaries.

Suffering in Anglophone Literatures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Suffering in Anglophone Literatures

Suffering in Anglophone Literatures engages with postclassical Trauma Studies and opens the traumatic envelope to embrace concepts such as toleration, mourning, nostalgia, vulnerability and existential Angst. The first section explores insomnia in Shakespeare, testimonial suffering in Richardson, nostalgia in Clare, work as a form of suffering in Tennyson and pleasurable suffering in Trollope. The second section deals with suffering as expressed in blues (by August Wilson), intergenerational healing (by Rosanna Deerchild), systemic pain in war fiction (from World War One to the Vietnam War), personal and historical nostalgia (by John Banville) and literary non-commitment to suffering (by Joyce, and Philip Kerr). The final section turns to more recent literary texts ranging from the poetry of Derek Mahon, Philip Metres and Solmaz Sharif to novels on intergenerational trauma (by Kate Morton), the sexual abuse of women (by Miriam Toews) and growing up in poverty (by Douglas Stuart).

Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-08-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book describes the experiences of undocumented migrants, all around the world, bringing to life the challenges they face from the moment they consider leaving their country of origin, until the time they are deported back to it. Drawing on a broad array of academic studies, including law, interpretation and translation studies, border studies, human rights, communication, critical discourse analysis and sociology, Robert Barsky argues that the arrays of actions that are taken against undocumented migrants are often arbitrary, and exercised by an array of officials who can and do exercise considerable discretion, both positive and negative. Employing insights from a decade-long research ...

Truth and Indignation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Truth and Indignation

The original edition of Truth and Indignation offered the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as it was unfolding. Niezen used testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission as well as interviews with survivors, priests, and nuns to raise important questions about the TRC process. He asked what the TRC meant for reconciliation, transitional justice, and conceptions of traumatic memory. In this updated edition, Niezen discusses the Final Report and Calls to Action bringing the book up to date and making it a valuable text for teaching about transitional justice, colonialism and redress, public anthropology, and human rights. Thoughtful, provocative, and uncompromising in the need to tell the "truth" as he sees it, Niezen offers an important contribution to understanding truth and reconciliation processes in general, and the Canadian experience in particular.

Power through Testimony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Power through Testimony

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-04-13
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Power through Testimony documents how survivors are remembering and reframing our understanding of residential schools in the wake of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a forum for survivors, families, and communities to share their memories and stories with the Canadian public. The commission closed and reported in 2015, and this timely volume reveals what happened on the ground. Drawing on field research during the commission and in local communities, the contributors document how residential schools have been understood and represented by various groups and individuals over time; how survivors are undermining colonial narratives about residential schools; and how the churches and former school staff are receiving or resisting the “new” residential school story. Ultimately, Power through Testimony questions the power of the TRC to unsettle dominant colonial narratives about residential schools and transform the relationship between Indigenous people and Canadian society.

Anthropologica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Anthropologica

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Devoir de mémoire. Perspectives sociales et théoriques sur la vérité, la justice et la réconciliation dans les Amériques
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 232

Devoir de mémoire. Perspectives sociales et théoriques sur la vérité, la justice et la réconciliation dans les Amériques

Les termes vérité, justice et réconciliation occupent aujourd’hui une place importante dans le vocabulaire mobilisé pour cadrer les rapports entre les États des Amériques et les populations qu’ils ont historiquement marginalisées. Enjeu de luttes politiques, la définition de ces mots a une portée juridique et des incidences sur les mesures de réparation envisagées, mais elle soulève aussi, fondamentalement, la question de la manière dont est construit le récit d’une histoire commune capable de dire la violence d’une société. Fruit d’un dialogue entre des chercheurs et chercheuses, des défenseurs et défenseuses des droits de la personne et des membres d’organisat...

Disputing Discipline
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Disputing Discipline

Being young in Zanzibar -- Childhood with/out punishment -- Children and child protection -- Child protection in Zanzibar schools -- Gender, Islam, and child protection -- Decolonizing child protection -- Beyond well-being, towards children.

Guatemala, the Question of Genocide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Guatemala, the Question of Genocide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-12-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In Guatemala, it was called the "trial of the century": the 2013 prosecution of former de facto head of state (1982-1983) General José Efraín Ríos Montt and his intelligence chief, General José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Maya-Ixil people. Ríos Montt's seventeen-month reign was one of the bloodiest periods in Guatemala's history, with "scorched earth" massacres, the destruction of hundreds of Maya communities, and militarized resettlement of Mayas into "model villages." Ríos Montt was convicted on all charges. Ten days later, a higher court vacated the verdict on dubious procedural grounds. Nevertheless, Guatemala's genoc...